{"id":7906,"date":"2017-07-06T19:53:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/help\/?p=7906"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:33:38","slug":"live-db-dead-db","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/help\/live-db-dead-db.html","title":{"rendered":"live.db and dead.db – what are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make sure to get yourself well acquainted with\u00a0Disk Drill’s data protection methods<\/a> before proceeding with this article.\u00a0Some users are wondering what the two files are and how they are used by Disk Drill. We’ll try to give a little insight here.<\/p>\n

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live.db and dead.db are the artifacts of Recovery Vault<\/a> module in Disk Drill. These files contain folder and file names, size, last modification time and on-disk location for files in tracked\u00a0folders. By default the whole ‘\/Users’ folder is monitored, but that is customizable by Disk Drill user in Data Protection settings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Disk Drill uses live.db to store the more or less fresh snapshot of real non-deleted files in the tracked folders. When Disk Drill detects deletion of a file, it moves the file information from live.db to dead.db. Then dead.db is used to restore deleted files when\u00a0possible.<\/p>\n

If you work for law enforcement or a\u00a0forensic\u00a0agency<\/a>, we might be able to provide an interface to these files assuming proper level of privacy protection of our\u00a0end-users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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